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Re: [OM] Duties to Belgium

Subject: Re: [OM] Duties to Belgium
From: Thomas Heide Clausen <T.Clausen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 15:20:08 +0200
On Tue, 13 May 2003 06:21:56 -0400
"Tom Scales" <tscales@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I just had a potential buyer ask a question for which I did not
> know the answer.
> 
> He is under the impression that everything from the US, even a used
> lens, will have a 25 0uty added.  Is this true?

I cannot speak for Belgium, but I have had rather steep import duties
added when buying used equipment from outside EU-zone. Since Belgium
undeniably is in the EU-zone, and since the EU members have went to
great length to harmonize their beurocracy (in effect, through
beefing it up to the sum of the burocracy from each individual
country) I suspect that they will suffer the same in Belgium.

I seem to recall that the "petitesse-limit" is somewhere around 20
USD. Anything more than that may be caught, declared, slapped on
customs fee plus, of course, a 100 USD "processing fee" to reward the
burocracy for their kind efforts. Bitter? Me??? Why do you ask? :)

Of course, rules may have changed in the 2 weeks that have elapsed
since I had my last such encounter....

--thomas

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